modern matriarchy
It’s what makes women ‘power-hungry’ or ‘manipulative’ where men are ‘ambitious’ and ‘shrewd’.
Ruby Tandoh • Eat Up: Food, Appetite and Eating What You Want
We have been told that there is only one kind of people and they are men. And I think it is very important that we all believe that. It certainly is important to the men.
Ursula K. Le Guin • The Wave in the Mind: Talks and Essays on the Writer, the Reader, and the Imagination
we all have needs that need to be tended to. I always wonder, what if care is the work? What if caring for ourselves is the revolution, meaning, what would happen if we divested from dismantling white supremacist capitalist patriarchy and invested our energy in equitizing the care we are able to provide one another?
Alexis Aceves Garcia • What if care is the work?
From indigenous cultures — who’ve tended to operate on a paradigm of cooperative collectivism that’s deeply entwined with their relationship to nature — to the African Ubuntu philosophy that emphasizes communal values, empathy, shared humanity, and the foundational belief that individuals exist in a web of relationships, there are countless... See more
Our Centaur Future - A RADAR Report
In this era of deconstruction and recentering attention on figures shut out of oppressive structures, the occult woman is a paragon of lost wisdom.
Jessa Crispin • Culture, Digested: The Worst Book I Read This Year Culture, Digested: The Worst Book I Read This Year
Innovation in a caring society must not only generate profit but create better outcomes for everyone. This is possible, but it requires care for people and planet to be valued as highly as capital – and for wellbeing to be incentivised as much as shareholder return.
Rachel Coldicutt • Sunshine Machines: Towards a Feminist Future of Digital Care
The house has served as a subliminal, maybe even subversive, blueprint for children, especially girls. Barbie’s Dreamhouse was all her own — Ken was not on the deed.
Anna Kodé • Barbie, Her House and the American Dream
Notably, Barbie’s first home, which was made of cardboard, had no kitchen.
This was contrary to many early dollhouses, which were made with the intent of teaching young girls domestic tasks.
Instead, Barbie had a television set and record player. She was here to have fun . Not be a homemaker.